remorseful - Story 116668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the elevator's motor had stopped, replaced by a disconcerting silence. The light from the ceiling fixtures had started to flicker. Mark stood staring at the door. He’d been curt with Lisa earlier, barely acknowledged her concerns about the project.

She sat in the corner, her face pale. She was always willing to help him. Now she was trapped with him, and he hadn't treated her with respect.

He sighed. He needed to make amends, but how? The air felt thick with his unspoken regret. He'd failed her and now he could do nothing but wait.

Emotion: remorseful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.57 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.09

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion remorseful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 remorseful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the remorseful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the remorseful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.656
`L`	0.580
`悔`	0.463
`remorse`	0.416
`been`	0.398

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.444
`(!)`	-0.309
`имеется`	-0.289
`oldukça`	-0.287
`😍`	-0.285